Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon

B. Carter, Ashton

ISBN 10: 1524743917 / ISBN 13: 9781524743918

Published by Penguin Random House LLC, 2019

About this Item

This will be the essential book for understanding the Pentagon and America's defense establishment. As secretary, Carter advised President Obama and transformed the department's strategic thinking and operations on critical global politics. Drawing from Carter's thirty-six years of experience at the Defense Department, including the department's #2 and #3 jobs before serving as secretary, this memoir provides clear insight into the most important decisions of the last four decades, to shed light on exactly what is happening inside one of the nation's most iconic buildings and most closely guarded institutions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon
• Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1524743917
• ISBN 13: 9781524743918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Weight: 1.614 pounds

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Synopsis

The twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the Pentagon, its vital mission, and what it takes to lead it.
 
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs millions of Americans. It owns and operates more real estate, and spends more money, than any other entity. It manages the world&;s largest and most complex information network and performs more R&D than Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined. Most important, the policies it carries out, in war and peace, impact the security and freedom of billions of people around the globe.
 
Yet to most Americans, the dealings of the D.O.D. are a mystery, and the Pentagon nothing more than an opaque five-sided box that they regard with a mixture of awe and suspicion.
 
In this new book, former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter demystifies the Pentagon and sheds light on all that happens inside one of the nation&;s most iconic, and most closely guarded, buildings. Drawn from Carter&;s thirty-six years of leadership experience in the D.O.D., this is the essential book for understanding the challenge of defending America in a dangerous world&;and imparting a trove of incisive lessons that can guide leaders in any complex organization.
 
In these times of great disruption and danger, the need for Ash Carter&;s authoritative and pragmatic account is more urgent than ever.

About the Author

For over thirty-five years Ash Carter served in numerous jobs in the Department of Defense, mostly recently as the twenty-fifth Secretary of Defense under President Obama. He currently serves as the Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School. He also is an innovation fellow at MIT. A native of Philadelphia, he and his wife, Stephanie, have two grown children.